Appliance for educational, amusement, and advertising purposes.



, A. I. GANCHER. n APPLIANGB FOR EDUCATIONAL, AMUSEMENT, AND ADVERTISING PURPOSES.

APPLICATION FILED IEB. Z3, 1911.

Patented Oct. 7, 1913.

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Patented Det. 7, 1913.

application med February 23, 1911. serial no.' 610,309.

To all whom it my concern.'

Beit known that I, ABRAHAM I. GANCHER, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at New York, in' the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Appliances for Educational, Amusement, and Advertising Purposes, of which the' following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to pro.

vide an appliance for educational, amusement, advertising and other urposes, whlch consists in a device compo of a plurality of rotatable endless members bearing longitudinally and consecutively arranged legends whereby the spelling of a word or several words to make a sentence can be easily attained. Y

Another object of my invention is to provide a combination spelling and adding device.

With these and other objects in view, my invention consists in the construction, arrangement and combination of parts as hereinafter fully specified.

To make my invention more clear, the same is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which similar reference nu` merals denote corresponding parts and in which- Figure 1 is a front elevation of my device, Fig. :2 is a cross section on line 2 2 of Fig. 1, Fig. 3 is a section on line 3-3 of Fig. 1, Figs. 4 and 5 are details and Fig. 6 i's a perspective view on reduced scale of the device.

lVith reference to the drawing, which forms a part of this specification, 1 denotes a board having rounded upper and lower edges P,- 1". The front face of the board is with parallel grooves 2 arranged transversely in the board and twofurrows arranged parallelto the grooves, one at each side of a groove 2. Rotatively guided around the board parallel to one another and each one extending longitudinally over a roove 2 are endless members or hands 4, 5, o flexible material, of which the bands 4' are parts of .the spelling` device and the band 5 is part of the adding device, The bands 4 of the spelling device each bear on the outer face two llke alphabets which are spaced apart andin each of which the characters are arranged longitudinally and consecu tively at uniform distances and in reversed order relative to the feeding movement of the bands. Each band is normally so positioned on the board that one' alphabet thereof extends over the front face of the board, while the second alphabet extends over the back of the board. Ata point just above the upmos't character, as Z, a suitable forwardlyv projecting member 4 of sheet metal or the like serving as a catch or gras is clasped or otherwise secured to each ban Secured to the board to exten'd longitudinally over each band,l preferably in a detachable manner, is a ard 6, formed of a strip of metal or the ike and having lateral rearwardly projecting Hanges 7, which are' adapted to frictionally engage the furrows 3, 3. These guards being adapted to separate the bands from one another and prevent a transverse displacement thereof are provided with a longitudinal recess 8 through which normally all characters of the front alphabet of the bands are exposed and through which the grasp or catch 4 projects outward or forward. Each of the bands also has an aperture 9 arranged so as to coincide with the characters of the alphabets, and preferably above the upper margin of the recess 8,' through which apertu're normally a blank space left between the two alphabets is visible. There may be as many bands as necessary to spell the longest word' or to spell several words to make a sentence and a corresponding number of such ards.

Adjacenttc each character of the front alphabet, preferabl somewhat below each character, the ban has a puncture or impression 42 which registers with the groove 2in' the board below and which serves for the engagement of an appropriate implement, as a pointed lead pencil or the like (not shown), whereby the bands may be fed around the board in order to manually The lowest edge spell a word or a sentence.

610 of the recess 8 in the guard is so situated that its distance from the lowest character or puncture of the frontalphabet' is equal to the distance between the upmost characters of the two alphabets, s`o that by the displacement of a-band in downward direction a character of the rear alphabet is brought to register with the 'aperture 9 in the respective guard and becomes visible therethrough. Thus, for instance, to spell the word BED the puncture or erforation corresponding to the letter B of a. band is engaged by an appropriate implement and the band fed downward until the implement strikes the lowest edge 10 of the recess 8, and the letter B is brought to the bottom of the recess. rear alphabet of the respective band isbrought to register with the aperture 9 in the guard 6 and becomes visible therethrough. Thereupon, in the same manner, a band located more to the right of the first displaced band is displaced to expose the character E of the rear alphabet and in the same manner a third band still farther to the right is displaced to expose the charac ter D of the rear alphabet thereof.

The adding partof the device is constructed on the same principle with the exception that the band 5 bears a single series of numerals arranged in consecutive order on a portion of the band which normally is adapted to extend over the back of the board, while the blank portion thereof extends over the front of the board. The numerals are so printed or otherwise marked on the outer face of the band that in the normal position of the band and relative to the position of use of the board they are upside down. Furthermore, these numerals are arranged out of the center of the band, that is to say, nearer to one of its margins and near the opposite margin of the band apertures or impressions 11 are provided all around the latter, which are spaced apart at an equal distance as the numerals. 'The guard 12, too, is slightly different in construction, the same having the longitudinal recess 12 at one side instead of in the center, so as to expose the punctured portion only of the endless band 5. The solid part of the guard bears on its face like numerals as the band, arranged in reversed order but with the same spacing. The aperture 13 above the topmost numeral of the `guard is adapted to normally expose a blank space of the band and upon feeding the latter downward, to expose one numeral at a time of the said band. Thus, if an addition is to be made of for instance 3 and 5, the puncture in the band corresponding to the numeral 3 is engaged by a pencll or the like and the band shifted downward until the pencil strikes the lower edge 122 of the. recess 12', whereby the hitherto concealed numeral 3 of the band is brought to register with the aperture 13 and becomes visible therethrough. Thereupon; the puncture corresponding to the numeral 5 is Thereby the character B of the.

engaged and the band moved down, whereby now the total of 3 and 5 viz., 8 will become visible through the aperture 13. The band 5 the same as the bands 4 has a projecting grasp or catch 5 secured thereto and adapted'to extend forward through the recess 12. These grasps or catches of the bands 4 and 5 serve to allow of the re"- turning of the displaced bands into starting position. Although the returning operation may be easily accomplished by hand, but for greater convenience and to save time, I provide a sliding member 14, which consists of a strip of metal adapted to eX- tend across the guards and bands and to normally be so positioned that its upper edge is flush with the lower edges 10 and 122 of the recesses 8 and 12 respectively. When some of the bands of the spellin device or of the adding device are displace thefslide 14 is shifted longitudinally of the guards to the opposite endY thereof, and in encountering on its way the members 4 and 5', carries simultaneously all the displaced bands back to the starting position.

The board may be incased or be provided with a suitable vframe 15, which exposes its front face, but conceals the back thereof. Between the back 16 of the frame and the board 1 a chamber 17 may be formed, through which the bands will be free to move.

For the movable attachment of the slide 14, I form the latter with rearwardly bent edges 14 and the lateral portions of the frame 15 with grooves or furrows' 18 running parallel to the guards and in which the said bent edges 14 of the slide frictionallv engage. The slide, furthermore, may be provided with a knob 19 or the llke, for the manipulation thereof. At the rear, the device may be provided with a suitably collapsible support 20 so that it may be placed on a table or desk like an easel to allow of acnvenient operation thereof.

As already intimated, my new appliance may be used for educational purposes, for instance, in schools, foramusement, or it may be used, for instance, in store windows to advertise certain new articles or to make other announcements.

Since various changes may be made in different parts of the invention by those skilled in the art, without deviating from the principle of my invention, I do not wish to restrict myself to the particular construction described and shown.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a spelling device, a board having a plurality of parallel furrows on one face, a corresponding number of endless bandsrotatably guided around said board, and a guard for each band removably engaged in said furrows.

2. In an educational appliance of the character described, a board, a plurality of endless bands rotatably ided around said board and arranged aljlacent and parallel to one another, said bands bearing legends,

a grojecti member on each yband and a sli e exten 1110 across the bands and adapted when movel longitudinally of the bands to engage the said projecting members of In testimony whereof I aiix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

ABRAHAM I. GANGHER.

Witnesses:

JOHN T. CARMonY, MAX. D. ORDMANN. 

